This plaque depicts a woman making music with a lyre on her lap. The reverse shows a bucolic landscape with a shepherd and sheep. Vernon exhibited this piece at the Salon de la Medaille during the 1910 World's Fair in Brussels.
| Artist |
Frédéric Charles Victor de Vernon
RKD
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Monnaie de Paris
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| Title | Poetry |
| Date | ca. 1900 - 1909 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Paris TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) at the front, lower left |
| on the reverse | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type | plaques (flat objects) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1909-FF-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Monnaie de Paris Paris 1909 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-FF-1 |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7644/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7667/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A72
female sex; woman
Iconclass
47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass 48C7321 lyre, cithara, psaltery Iconclass 48C90 'litterae', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ literature; 'Lettere' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles en 1910 : Salon international de la médaille contemporaine... : Groupe II: Beaux-Arts ; Classe 9B: Gravure en médailles (Bruxelles, Palais du Cinquantenaire, 01.05 - 15.11.1910) ; Catalogue / Victor Tourneur. - Bruxelles : Imprimerie A. Lesigne, 1910 (p.88, cat. nr. 144 (192)) |
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